My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.

I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.